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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Bidar – Barid Shahi Tombs

Ever since I entered Bidar town, this one monument was so
inviting due to its spooky look. Big dome poping out among the grove oftrees was certainly not a popular place like fort. But it was attractive. At
the first sight, I felt it is a perfect place for shooting horror movie!!

Just before catching up our train to Bangalore we had a couple of
hours left. Along with one of my friends visited this place and believe me we
were not in a mood to come out until our other friends started calling and reminded
us that we were getting late.

This place is called as Barid Shahi tomb.

Barid Shai tomb is located in the garden on Udgiri road right
behind the bus stand,walkable from any part of the town. There are two main monuments which house both father and his son’s graves.

Barid Shahi is one of the dynasties who ruled Bidar. Ali
Barid Shah was a big lover of art,
architecture and poetry. His tomb is one of the masterpieces of Barid Shahi
architecture. He himself had built it when he was alive.

Next to this monument little awayis his son Ibrahim Barid’s tomb. This one is
similar to Ali Barid Shah’s tomb, but smaller in size.

Both the structures are placed on a platform. Ali Barid
Shah’s tomb is a huge vertical monument of 70 ft with unusually large dome on the top compared
to its lower structure. It gives a feeling of something odd with the
proportion.

Outside the building on the platform are cluster of graves.These are graves of ladies from his harem.
I didn’t count but i guess there were more than 50 graves.

Inside of the tomb houses Ali Barid Shah’s grave along with his begum's
graves. Inside of the tomb is open on all the 4 sides. It is decorated with colorful tiles and we can find few inscriptions. There are few poems written on this. I could
not read any of them though. I guess it is in Persian language.

All these monuments were unattended. I could
see people having sound sleep inside the monuments next to graves !!

I understand, recently it has been taken over by ASI(Archeological
Survey of India) for maintenance. There were no guides around to understand the
history. I wish the government appoints few guides to keep the tales behind these monuments alive.

Apart from these two monuments there are plenty of remains of
so many structures.Each of the remains of these structures were camera friendly with its pinkish texture and stunning architecture, and arches.

It was just giving us the glimpse of its glorious past. Our
imagination can go non stop to build it back to its glory.

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